Barely two years into her role as CEO of Tampa's Seminole Electric Cooperative — a provider of electricity to 1.4 million Floridians and businesses across 42 counties — Lisa Johnson faces a looming challenge.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, cracking down on carbon emissions, is targeting coal-fueled power plants in a federal initiative called the Clean Power Plan. In Florida, that could force the early closing of most of the remaining coal plants in the state. Seminole Electric provides wholesale electric power to its nine-member distribution electric cooperatives. They, in turn, deliver electricity to their mostly rural and often lower-income customers....

TAMPA — With his team coming off a 2-14 season but armed with what he hopes is a franchise quarterback in 2015 No. 1 draft pick Jameis Winston, Bucs co-chairman Bryan Glazer said Sunday fans should consider 2015 a "growing year."

However, he said the Bucs have the potential to go far and allowed that "anything can happen."

"This is a growing year,'' Glazer said before the start of the Bucs' training camp practice. "With a rookie quarterback, everybody in this community is really excited about that, the team is excited about that, and with Jameis, we're going to put it on his shoulder and see how he goes. But it's one step at a time. We're not trying to do it all at once here.''...

BOSTON — Okay, so not everything worked out perfectly for the Rays on Sunday afternoon.

James Loney was doing the postgame interview with Todd Kalas as one of the stars in the 4-3 win over Boston when Chris Archer made the now standard move of dousing him with a cooler of water. But with David DeJesus traded, Archer needs a new splash partner, and fellow starter Erasmo Ramirez, armed with a cooler full of Gatorade, wasn't quite up to the task....

Nearly three weeks into a spate of soggy weather typically associated with a tropical cyclone, forecasters said there may be an end in sight — kind of.

"Looks like slow improvement," said Ernie Jillson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "By Tuesday, we should see it coming back to typical summertime activity, but that could still give you a 50 to 60 percent chance of rain each day."...

The Hillsborough County school district has released school-by-school results of the past year's climate survey, allowing for comparisons from one school to another.

Giant caveat: This year, because students were so over-burdened with state testing, the district decided to give the survey to a sample of students and not all 207,000. Officials said they are confident the sample was large enough, especially for identifying districtwide trends. But responses came from only about 30 percent of the students....

A passenger was killed and the driver was in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning on Interstate 4, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The driver, was who was identified as a 16-year-old from Lakeland, was driving east erratically on I-4 approaching the County Line Road overpass around 8:21 a.m., authorities said. He lost control of his vehicle and left the roadway, colliding with the guardrail at the overpass, according to the Highway Patrol....

TAMPA — A pedestrian was killed Saturday evening when he was struck by a car while trying to cross Bearss Avenue, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Larry Donald Wright, 69, was crossing the eastbound lanes on Bearss Avenue around 10:13 p.m. when he entered the path of a car driven by Shawn James Zapatka, 42, traveling east on Bearss Avenue in the right turn lane west of Fisher Road, authorities said....

Gandy Bridge was reopened after getting closed again Sunday morning following flooding from record amounts of rain, according to Tampa police.

Florida Department of Transportation announced the reopening of the bridge around 11 a.m., after closing it around 9 a.m. due to flooding in both directions, authorities said. Gandy Bridge was also closed around 11 p.m. Saturday because of flooding, according to Tampa police. ...

Tampa Bay Times picture editor Ted McLaren is moving on to pursue a career in biological sciences. As this is his last day with us, we thought it would be fitting to post a gallery of 10 of his photos from his years as a staff photographer here.

APOLLO BEACH — A 59-year-old man died Saturday afternoon after he lost control of his car during a rainstorm, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Kirk Kovel, of Apollo Beach, was traveling eastbound on Apollo Beach Boulevard when he lost control of his Chevrolet Corvette at the curve just west of Fairway Boulevard around 2:46 p.m., authorities said.

Kovel hit the shoulder then over corrected, spinning across the road into the path a Hyundai Sonata driven by of Annette Yucha, 30 of Riverview, who was heading westbound on Apollo Beach Boulevard. ...

CLEARWATER — Fifteen people were treated for respiratory-related problems Saturday night after someone shot pepper spray into an elevator shaft at Westfield Countryside, according to the Clearwater Fire Department.

People began coughing and reacting negatively around 8:15 p.m. inside the mall's JCPenney, authorities said. Of the 15 people treated on scene, four had to be transported to the hospital. ...